New Year

I think that New Year is a very nice holiday. On that day our family is always at home. I like this holiday.

On that day I go to bed at half past twelve at night, not at nine o’clock in the evening as I usually do. Isn’t that nice?

The thirty-first of December was Wednesday. But Mummy did not go to her office because it was her day off. She was busy in the kitchen all day long. My father and I helped her about the house. She cooked a lot of tasty things. Dad brought home a big green New Year tree. We put it in the living room.

The New Year tree was beautiful. There were a lot of toys and lights of all colors: blue, red, yellow, green and white. There was a big red star and a lot of little flags on the tree. There were some sweets and fruit on the tree, too.

The sweets looked so nice that I ate some before the New Year.

At half past eleven we sat down at a holiday table.

Dad put something near me. “Happy New Year, dear! This is a New Year present for you.”

I thanked Dad and looked at the present. It was a new doll. The doll was beautiful. It had long yellow hair, large blue eyes, a little red mouth. The doll could open and close her eyes and say “Ma-ma”. I liked the doll very much.

Then Mummy said, “Now, Annie, look under the tree.”

I quickly ran up to the New Year tree and looked under it.

Do you know what I saw there? I saw a new beautiful pink dress, and very nice white shoes there! I was very glad.

Then I gave my presents to Dad and Mummy. I drew pictures for them and showed them my record-book. I had only “fives”! They liked my presents, too.

When it was a quarter to twelve somebody knocked at the door. Can anybody guess' who it was? It was Father Frost! He had a big red bag of presents. He gave me some presents and said, “Happy New Year!”

How happy I was to see Father Frost and to get some presents from him!